Elon Musk’s Grok Is Cleared For Federal Government Use

Despite Elon Musk and Donald Trump’s very nationalist spats and seemingly still ongoing feud, nan White House has remained committed to supporting nan former’s AI ambitions. And today, nan General Services Administration (GSA) announced that it has reached an statement pinch xAI that will let it to bargain Musk’s Grok AI models for $0.42 per organization.

As portion of nan Trump administration’s OneGov procurement initiative, nan woody pinch xAI will let national agencies entree to nan Grok 4 and Grok 4 Fast precocious reasoning models. The 18-month statement is nan longest OneGov AI procurement statement to date. xAI announced its Grok for Government strategy earlier successful nan summer, which signalled its volition to supply nan authorities pinch a suite of AI products, including civilization models for nationalist security, subject and healthcare purposes.

As good arsenic opening its models for authorities use, xAI is besides providing dedicated engineers to velocity up nan implementation of its AI devices for participating agencies, and will connection an "upgrade path" for expanded features and higher complaint limits. Such entree is simply a important portion of Trump’s AI Action Plan, designed to position nan US arsenic nan world leader successful AI. And his management doesn’t look to person been put disconnected by Grok’s bizarre behaviour successful caller months, specified arsenic its preoccupation pinch far-right conspiracy theories regarding "white genocide" successful South Africa, aliases its brief but enthusiastic turn towards antisemitism.

xAI is nan latest successful a statement of AI companies to onslaught deals pinch nan GSA. Back successful August, Anthropic began offering its Claude AI exemplary to 3 branches of nan US authorities for $1, pursuing Gemini and xAI’s arch rival OpenAI joining a database of approved vendors.